Trump Back to Admiring Tyrants

Loving and defending Vladimir Putin became awkward for Donald Trump when the allegations of Russian election interference picked up steam. Praising the leadership of Kim Jong-un became ridiculous when Kim started openly mocking the U.S. and promising to nuke Guam. Frankly, Trump, always a gushing admirer of political strong men and thugs, was running out of killers to praise.

Thankfully, humanity’s anti-civilization impulse remains as untamed as ever, and is forever coughing up new tyrants for Trump to befriend. Thus today, as the rational portion of the rest of the world is expressing increasing concern over the subversion of Turkey’s modernization process by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Trumpis out there heaping his special brand of brotherly love on his fellow personality cult leader.

Trump said Erdogan “is becoming a friend of mine.” U.S. and Turkey “right now as close as we’ve ever been” thanks to personal relationship. pic.twitter.com/i61NQD3yK9